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Meta contributes new features to Python 3.12

Python 3.12 is out! It includes new features and performance improvements – some contributed by Meta – that we believe will benefit all Python users. We’re sharing details about these new features that we worked closely with the Python community to develop. This week’s release of Python 3.12 marks a milestone in our efforts to… Continue reading Meta contributes new features to Python 3.12

Automated Server Decommissioning: Achieving Carbon Reduction at Scale for a Greener Future

By Kristina Fronczyk, Emily Collier, and Scott Nyberg The fossil fuels sector is largely linked to high carbon footprints and greenhouse gas emissions. However, the tech sector too plays a major role in energy usage and carbon emissions — projected to account for up to 20% of global energy demands by 2030. Diving deeper, data… Continue reading Automated Server Decommissioning: Achieving Carbon Reduction at Scale for a Greener Future

SRE Weekly Issue #392

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Rootly is proud to have been recognized by G2 as a High Performer and Enterprise Leader in Incident Management for the sixth consecutive quarter! In total, we received nine G2 awards in the Summer Report. As a thank-you to our community, we’re giving away some awesome… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #392

SRE Weekly Issue #391

Women in Tech: 5 Key Tips for Building a Lasting Career at Salesforce

While women make up half of those employed in STEM jobs and demonstrate exceptional leadership and innovation capabilities, they’re still largely underrepresented in senior leadership — making up just one in four C-Suite positions. I’m working to tackle this disparity. As the Director of TPIL Learning (Technology, People, Innovation, and Learning) at Salesforce, I provide… Continue reading Women in Tech: 5 Key Tips for Building a Lasting Career at Salesforce

SRE Weekly Issue #390

View on sreweekly.com Many apologies to my email subscribers, who have seen two accidental re-sends of old issues recently due to a weird glitch in my automation. I think I’ve gotten a handle on it, and I’ll run an internal retrospective of this incident, of course. A message from our sponsor, Rootly: When incidents impact… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #390

Meta Quest 2: Defense through offense

Meta’s Native Assurance team regularly performs manual code reviews as part of our ongoing commitment to improve the security posture of Meta’s products. In 2021, we discovered a vulnerability in the Meta Quest 2’s Android-based OS that never made it to production but helped us find new ways to improve the security of Meta Quest… Continue reading Meta Quest 2: Defense through offense

Slack Behind the Scenes: Overcoming Key Challenges to Craft a Seamless Mobile App

By Tracy Stampfli and Scott Nyberg In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the professional life experiences that have shaped Salesforce Engineering leaders. Meet Tracy Stampfli, a Principal Software Engineer for Slack at Salesforce. Tracy works behind the scenes on Slack’s mobile infrastructure team — an elite group of innovative engineers who ensure that… Continue reading Slack Behind the Scenes: Overcoming Key Challenges to Craft a Seamless Mobile App

SRE Weekly Issue #389

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: When incidents impact your customers, failing to communicate with them effectively can erode trust even further and compound an already difficult situation. Learn the essentials of customer-facing incident communication in Rootly’s latest blog post: https://rootly.com/blog/the-medium-is-the-message-how-to-master-the-most-essential-incident-communication-channels Articles Building a Successful SRE Team Here’s four of the lessons… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #389

Using Chakra execution traces for benchmarking and network performance optimization

Meta presents Chakra execution traces, an open graph-based representation of AI/ML workload execution, laying the foundation for benchmarking and network performance optimization. Chakra execution traces represent key operations, such as compute, memory, and communication, data and control dependencies, timing, and resource constraints. In collaboration with MLCommons, we are seeking industry-wide adoption for benchmarking. Meta open… Continue reading Using Chakra execution traces for benchmarking and network performance optimization